The arts are a green industry with a very high rate of return. This is not money thrown away by any stretch… — Robert Schenkkan Copy Share Image
Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali?… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company… — Jeff Pulver Copy Share Image
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish… — Andrew Samwick Copy Share Image
The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are of course economic advantages to having Turkey as a member of the European club. It's a developing country with a… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
Classic economic theories recognize public goods aspects of one kind or another - the need for economic intervention in, obviously, the supply… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For young males that weigh between 150-200 lbs., deadlifts can move up 15-20 lbs. per workout, squats 10-15 lbs., with continued steady… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Medical research has shown that when an 8 week old human foetus is pricked in the palm of his hand by a… — Mark Volman Copy Share Image
Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control… — James Grant Copy Share Image
Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as… — James Meade Copy Share Image
Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy,"… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the company. Cisco is probably… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good… — Wu Yi Copy Share Image
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A child born today will experience an increase to sea level of about three to six feet. The rate of change is… — Jeff Orlowski Copy Share Image
In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
